From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:26:42 GMT
Subject: Re: How to mark a complete sub-directory assume-unchanged/skip-worktree?
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In-Reply-To: <3A9AA61FDE124808AA25DE3511CF99F1@PhilipOakley>

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
> Have there been previous attempts to look at marking sub-dirs as
> --skip-worktree, or some other sentinel value for the missing tree?

I dealt with this by creating partial index, that only contains
entries for interested subtrees. The index also stores the base tree
SHA-1, so write-tree can still create (full) new trees correctly from
partial index.
-- 
Duy